Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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submitted 10 months ago by DragonYevaud@alien.top to c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

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I’m planning on setting up full color LED strips (think neopixels) as lighting in various locations in my house. Stairs, bathrooms, under beds, along the ceiling/wall lines are my immediate plans. The problem I have is how to power these conveniently as many of these locations don’t have outlets and I would prefer not to be running a wire up a wall or over the staircase edge to power these. I haven’t been able to find a good solution and am hoping for some good suggestions from your person experiences.

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[–] wivaca@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Got another question. Are you talking about neopixels because you want individual Pixel control to make chase lights or other fancy patterns, or do you just want to be able to select all pixels same color (like red or violet)?

There are RGB strips that just do solid colors and typically have a pretty small controller module that is nearly in-line on the cord.

On the other hand, Neopixels need something like a Pi Zero, ESP32, or Arduino on them to tell every LED what to do. I suspect you know this, so apologies if I'm telling you things you already know.

[–] DragonYevaud@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Good information. Color changing strips where they change color together would meet my requirements, especially for the bathrooms and, most likely, the kitchen. The stairs and other locations would benefit from pixel level control. I’m doing neopixels for a couple of reasons. 1 -I like individual pixel control. 2- I already have multiple reels that I can use so I don’t need to buy new.